Beetle with Plumose Antennae from Malaysia

Subject: cockroach or beetle?
Location: MALAYSIA
February 27, 2013 11:54 pm
Hello there bugman. I was wondering what kind of bug is this? It can even fly around and it has the eyebrow looking stuff i mean eyelashes .. Tried google it but doesnt have anything returned
This is the picture i have uploaded hopefully i will get to know this more. Thanks
Signature: BRANDON

Beetle with Plumose Antennae

Dear Brandon,
The entomological term to describe this beetle’s antennae is plumose and you can see examples of plumose antennae on BugGuide. In form, your beetle resembles a Click Beetle in the family Elateridae, and there are Click Beetles with plumose antennae, but we suspect that this might be a member of a smaller and more obscure family of beetles that is contained within the superfamily Elateroidea. We decided to search our own archives and we found that a very similar beetle was our 10,000th posting and it was tentatively identified as Callirhipis cardwellensis. Not long after that, we posted an individual, also from Malaysia, that looks identical to your beetle. If your beetle is Callirhipis cardwellensis, then it belongs in the family Callirhipidae, as evidenced by these specimen tags on the Victoria Museum website. According to BugGuide, the family Callirhipidae contains Callirhipid Cedar Beetles. We are certain that your networking cache will spike as soon as you are able to post the identity of this unusual beetle.